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shou, showing a nearly similar forward curvature near the trez-tine, but 

 normally with only four points, owing to the absence of the bez-tine. Head 

 short and broad. Tail about 4 inches in length. General colour of pelage 

 at all seasons ashy gray with a light yellowish sheen ; a darker line down 

 the middle of the back ; a small light-coloured caudal disk, including the 

 tail, and bordered inferiorly by a blackish streak ; legs brownish. 



The antlers, which have been of the same general type for the last four 



Fig. 28. — The Bokhara Deer. From the Moscow specimen. 



years, are simpler than in any other member of the group, but come nearest 

 to those of the shou. The absence of the bez-tine appears to be constant ; 

 but in the shed pair in the possession of the Duke of Bedford there are 

 five tines on the left side, apparently due to abnormal development, as the 

 terminal fork is much smaller on this than on the opposite side. The 

 brow-tine, as in the shou, rises immediately above the burr. Probably 

 this deer indicates a small western representative of the last-named species. 

 Distributio?! . — Russian Turkestan. 



